Holocaust

[bathmat]

This weekend ABC IView didn't have any of the usual inconsequential shit that I like to watch (like Grand Designs, Doctor Who and Torchwood) so I found myself watching Inside Hana's Suitcase. Inside Hana's Suitcase tells the story of two Jewish siblings before, during and after the Holocaust. It's narrated by the children and director of the Toykyo

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[crazedturkey]

They both sound really interesting - I just don't think I have the mental strength to withstand watching it. (Did you really sit through all nin and half hours? How on Earth did you manage so much despair?)

[bathmat]

I've watched 2 of the 4 discs over two days so two and a bit hours in each sitting. I couldn't cope with any more. My life experience doesn't allow me to comprehend such madness and inhumanity.

[flippyfrog]

I never wanted to see Auschwitz or Birkenau. Was happy to avoid those death camps, or even work camps. But I found myself going to them on a tour of the Eastern Block. It was probably one of the hardest things I've ever had to do

[bathmat]

I went to Dachau during winter when I was in Germany. The little stream that runs down the side of the camp is permanately imprinted in my brain. And the peeling paint from the cells. I don't think I could handle seeing Auschwitz, Birkenau or Treblinka. You're right about the clincalness of it - the scary thing illustrated in the documentary is the process of experimentation the Nazis went through to get to that point at Birkenau and Auschwitz. I don't think anybody can come to terms with it.

[katiefoolery]

It's just so incomprehensible, which leads to an inevitable fascination. How did those who ran the camps justify what they were doing? How did those inside the camps manage to find the will to stay alive? So many questions. A whole regime set up to find the most effective way to eliminate hundreds of thousands of people from existence.

Bewildering.